George Wright
The background of this spring knife manufacturer is uncertain. The Census (1841) enumerated him as an apprentice cutler, living with 40-year-old cutler Thomas Bingham. The latter was the father of William Ogden (see Bingham & Ogden). By 1851, George Wright was a spring knife manufacturer at Norfolk Lane, living with his wife, Ann, and apprentice William Bingham (the son of Thomas). He employed fifteen men. George Wright continued to trade through the 1850s at Surrey Works, Cadman&rsquo....
